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10-05-2009, 10:29 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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| P-61 Black Widow Pictures Some P-61 Black Widow Pictures I came Across.
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10-05-2009, 10:31 PM
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  | Excellent pics!
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10-05-2009, 10:42 PM
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| Those are excellent Beau!! Thanks for sharing!  |
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10-05-2009, 11:48 PM
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| Nice!
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10-06-2009, 12:25 AM
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| are 184 AND 190 NATURAL METAL? |
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10-06-2009, 12:58 AM
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| Two of the pictures are of the P-61 on Middleburg Island. A few years ago, I had a thread that mentioned the island and had some other pictures of what the airfield looked like. http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/tec...elds-3451.html (Pacific Airfields)
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10-06-2009, 07:54 AM
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| WOW those are sweet pics!....thanks. 
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10-06-2009, 08:23 AM
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| I swear I've seen Wabash Cannonball as the artwork on a B-17 I wonder if it was the same pilot who transferred to P-61s? |
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10-06-2009, 09:45 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
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| I have never seem any of those before. Thanks for posting Beau. One thing I noticed was how the black paint seemed to weather really badly and just peel off. ( note pics #9 and #11 from the top) Love the pic of the P-61's on the flight line with the B-29 in the background.
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10-06-2009, 10:52 AM
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I noticed that too, paint didn't seem to stick too well to the P-61 or maybe it was just more noticeable given the all-black livery | |
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10-06-2009, 10:55 AM
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| gents the black paint was crap it did not take much to pull the stuff off. many of the 9th AF Widows look like hell as there were very few spare parts, nothing came in new and they flew the crates till they fell apart. I knew the chap flying Wabash cannonball 3 and 4. he was the CO of the 425th nfs. Interviewed quite at length when he took me to his home , met his charming wife and sat over a good cup of coffee.........may stories to tell
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10-06-2009, 10:59 AM
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| Glad yall like the pictures. 
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10-06-2009, 12:25 PM
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| Erich, Can you share any of those stories?
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10-07-2009, 03:32 PM
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| Great selection of pics BP, thanks.
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10-07-2009, 05:05 PM
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